Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's ...

Cobol applications now can be deployed to the Java Virtual Machine as well as to Windows Azure for the first time Micro Focus on Thursday announced it is extending its Cobol platform to Java and the ...

Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, announced new software designed to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. The latest version of Veryant's isCOBOL ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

“We expect for partners of all types to have a role to play,” IBM VP Keri Olson told CRN. IBM plans to preview its upcoming Watsonx Code Assistant for Z generative artificial intelligence-assisted ...

Veryant, a provider of COBOL modernization tools, announced a new release of its isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS) for developing, deploying, and modernizing COBOL applications. This is the ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...

Since its inception in the 1960s, COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) has served as the backbone of global financial transaction systems. Valued for its stability and efficient processing ...

For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released Thursday, ...